Doctors Without Borders

News about Doctors Without Borders, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 27, 2015

Doctors Without Borders reports that average rate of Ebola-related deaths at its remaining centers in West Africa has dropped to 52 percent from about 62 percent. MORE

Dec. 3, 2014

Doctors Without Borders warns slow and uneven international response to Ebola crisis in West Africa could lead to further setbacks; group's international president Dr Joanne Liu acknowledges outpouring of help but says most of the work has fallen to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra, poor countries at heart of outbreak; concerns are in contrast to more optimistic appraisal by World Health Organization. MORE

Oct. 15, 2014

Doctors Without Borders criticizes lack of reliable evacuation systems from West Africa, saying that more would volunteer to fight Ebola in region if it were not so difficult to leave in case of emergency; cites fact that it took 50 hours to evacuate French nurse to Paris after she tested positive for virus. MORE

Oct. 11, 2014

Doctors Without Borders, first to respond to Ebola crisis in West Africa, remains primary international medical aid group battling disease there; strained and overworked charity has erected six treatment centers in West Africa, with plans for more, and has treated the majority of patients, just as they have in previous Ebola outbreaks and some other epidemics in the developing world. MORE

Aug. 20, 2014

Dr Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, urges health agencies like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control to step up their efforts to combat Ebola outbreak in Africa, saying they have not yet grasped the magnitude of the disaster; organization is treating more patients in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone than any other entity. MORE

Aug. 18, 2014

Doctors Without Borders will begin accepting patients at new treatment center in Liberia; facility, composed of a series of white tents, is designed to hold an initial 120 patients and will be expanded to accommodate up to 400; opening comes day after an improvised holding center was overrun by protesters. MORE

Aug. 5, 2014

Sierra Leone, West African nation with the most cases of Ebola, has banned many public gatherings and set strict quarantine rules, but doctors and health care workers are deeply worried by loose enforcement efforts; West African leaders have declared extraordinary measures to fight disease, but Doctors Without Borders declares epidemic out of control. MORE

Jul. 28, 2014

Health workers with Doctors Without Borders are encountering fear and hostility from locals as they seek to combat unprecedented Ebola virus that has killed more than 660 people in Guinea and three other African countries; workers, who are blamed by panicked population for spreading virus, have been threatened and blocked from entering villages; as a result sick and dead villagers, cut off from help, are infecting others. MORE

Jul. 8, 2014

Study by Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization reports that six different rapid diagnostic tests have proved reliable in detecting Chagas disease without having to wait for laboratory confirmation; such quick tests could prove breakthrough for controlling the disease, which infects up to eight million people in Latin America. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Doctors Without Borders reports that Shanchol, inexpensive, easy-to-use cholera vaccine that is stockpiled for emergencies, worked very well during cholera outbreak in Africa, providing 86 percent protection. MORE

Jun. 18, 2014

Sudanese Air Force attacks village of Farandalla, heavily damaging hospital run by humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders. MORE

May. 3, 2014

Rising death toll has become humanitarian crisis among Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority, as Buddhist-led government deprives them of even most basic liberties; expulsion of Doctors Without Borders has left more than million Rohingya without health care; government has blocked other humanitarian aid to camps and rest of Rakhine State, where tuberculosis, waterborne illnesses and malnutrition are endemic. MORE

Apr. 29, 2014

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders expresses alarm and outrage over weekend killings of 16 civilians, including three staff members, on property of hospital it runs in Central African Republic. MORE

Apr. 29, 2014

Doctors Without Borders reports that tactic known as seasonal malaria chemoprevention, in which children in West Africa are given regular malaria medication in rainy season when mosquitoes are plentiful, reduces both simple infections and severe malaria by 70 percent. MORE

Apr. 10, 2014

Doctors Without Borders severely criticizes United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan over what it calls a shameful indifference to the squalid living conditions of 21,000 displaced people. MORE

Mar. 18, 2014

Editorial warns that Myanmar's decision to ban Doctors Without Borders from the state of Rakhine has left 750,000 people without medical care, resulting in some 150 estimated deaths; notes that move is only the latest action against country's Muslim Rohingya minority, and calls on international community to hold Myanmar accountable for their treatment. MORE

Mar. 14, 2014

Nearly 750,000 people in Myanmar, mostly members of Muslim minority, have been deprived of medical services following government ban of Doctors Without Borders; government ordered halt to group's work after some officials accused group of favoring Muslim Rohingya ethnic group over Rakhine Buddhists. MORE

Feb. 26, 2014

Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan survey of 800 patients finds that nearly one in five of them knows someone who died because they could not reach medical care, painting dismaying picture of unmet needs; notes obstacles in some areas were high costs, even though health care is supposed to be free in Afghanistan, and in other areas the war posed an obstacle to getting to facilities. MORE

Feb. 11, 2014

Doctors Without Borders is lobbying for cheaper version of hepatitis C treatment pill Solvaldi, to be used in poor nations where virus is widespread; pill costs $84,000 a treatment in United States, but doctors estimate that it can be made for $250 or less. MORE

Jan. 3, 2014

Doctors Without Borders says it has drastically curtailed operations at airport encampment in the Central African Republic, where violence has imperiled about 100,000 displaced people taking refuge. MORE

Oct. 17, 2013

Doctors Without Borders reports that new wave of attacks and killings has engulfed parts of the Central African Republic; organization is one of the few international aid providers that has remained in the country, which has descended into near-total chaos in the past half year. MORE

Aug. 25, 2013

International aid group Doctors Without Borders reports that more than 3,000 patients showing symptoms of exposure to toxic nerve agents were received at medical centers near site of suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus, Syria; Pres Obama supports investigation into attack but expresses hesitance about getting involved militarily. MORE

Aug. 15, 2013

Doctors Without Borders, one of the world’s most tenacious humanitarian groups, says that it can no longer endure risks that come with operating in Somalia, and will shut down all operations in country after 22 years of working there. MORE

Apr. 9, 2013

Prominent American and Canadian research universities earned mostly Cs on the first report card assessing how much their laboratories benefit health of world’s poor; report card was written by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and released in coordination with Doctors Without Borders. MORE

Nov. 6, 2012

Doctors Without Borders reports that radical Buddhist groups are preventing doctors from delivering assistance to areas of western Myanmar affected by intense sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims. MORE

Aug. 22, 2012

Doctors Without Borders announces that an international team of doctors and nurses has been quietly treating Syrian opposition fighters and civilians for two months; seven-person team is one of the precious few aid groups that have entered Syria and established operations since the conflict there began; Syrian government is aware of the group's presence but has indicated that its work will be conducted at its own risk. MORE

Dec. 31, 2011

Doctors Without Borders announces that a second foreign worker, Dr Andrias Karel Keiluhu, has died of his wounds from an attack in Somalia that also killed the group's country director, Philippe Havet. MORE

Dec. 30, 2011

Foreign aid worker with Doctors Without Borders is shot dead and another worker is wounded by a former colleague at their office in Mogadishu, Somalia; shooting, latest in series of attacks on aid workers and journalists, underscores dangers of working in this war-torn country. MORE

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